People's Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier made a campaign stop in 91原创 on Sunday, April 13, appearing with Abbotsford-South 91原创 candidate Aeriol Alderking at the Glass House Estate Winery.
About 50 people turned out for the first appearance by a federal party leader in the 91原创 area during the current election.
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Bernier was applauded as he called for tougher immigration laws.
"We need to have a pause, a moratorium on immigration," Bernier said
"We have too many people coming here. They don't integrate into our society."
He predicted the party would increase its percentage of the vote this election, even electing it's first member to parliament.
"Our time will come," he said.
Bernier warned growing dissatisfaction with the federal government was contributing to separatist sentiment in both Quebec and Alberta, predicting there could be another referendum on separation in the French speaking province by 2026.
Alderking, a long-time Abbotsford resident who described Bernier as the "answer to our problems" previously ran for the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) in Abbotsford in 2019, finishing last, with 270 votes and 0.6 per cent of ballots, just behind PPC candidate Locke Duncan who was second-last with 985 votes or two per cent.
While other political parties are making tariffs the main issue, Alderking said it wasn't the only one, citing a range of concerns that include what she described as "dairy cartels" that restrict farmers, abortion, euthanasia and what she called the "transgendering of children, butchering up their bodies before they are adults and can make an informed decision about what they want to do."
She said she was invited to run as a PPC candidate and did so because its stand on abortion was the same as the CHP, which describes itself as Canada's only 100 per cent pro-life political party.
"They want to limit abortion, not have late-term abortions, [and] limits on the MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying)," Alderking told the 91原创 Advance Times.
"So I don't stand for anything that is causing unnatural death."
As a PPC candidate, Alderking was rated "perfect" by the pro-life Campaign Life Coalition for her answers to CLC's 2025 federal election questionnaire, including saying "no" when asked "are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion?"
"I also like the fact that Maxime is not for the gun bans," Alderkind added.
"I think that we should be allowed to have farms, or hunters, or farmers able to defend their properties and defend themselves when they're out in the bush."
She also supports pipelines "for developing our resources and getting Canada back on a prosperous track."
Alderking's online party bio describes her as a single mother who ran her own business, while raising her son and daughter.
The PPC is currently polling sixth among major parties in Canada, behind the Green Party and Bloc Quebecois.
The right-wing party was founded by Bernier in 2018 shortly after he quit the Conservative Party after serving as a senior minister in the Stephen Harper government.
In the 2021 federal election, the party received 4.9 per cent of the total national vote, but did not see any of its candidates elected as MPs.
The party is running candidates in all three 91原创-area ridings.
